John Thomas wrote: > Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM: >> Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is >> running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. > > I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate. I am > running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a virtual machine inside the free > VMWare server on a CentOS 5.0 machine. > > [root at srv log]# egrep "signal|startup" maillog > Nov 4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process > /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil pid 23893 killed by signal 11 > Nov 4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: > /usr/libexec/postfix/anvil: bad command startup -- throttling > Nov 7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process > /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 24327 killed by signal 11 > Nov 7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: > /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling > Nov 9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process > /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 13133 killed by signal 11 > Nov 9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: > /usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling Xen on Centos 5.0 is flaky.